banana sandwich with twist (in ViSpeak)

BANANA SAMMICH WIVVA TWITCH >B

You will need:

• Banana
• Homous
• Bread (omnomnom go for Granary!)

Makings:

1. Gerra slice of bread, innit.
2. Chop that there banan' til it's good and sliced.
3. Swipe a loada homous on ya bread wir' niphe or summin
   
4. Put your 'nana on there too.
5. Squish 'em all good wivva nother slice of bread
   
   
   
6. OMNOMNOM

Vi xx

s(c)heesey pitta snack

stuff you'll need:

• a toaster
• a knife

ingrediants:

• wholemeal pitta breads ( i get mine from CoOperative supermarket)
• pretend cheese (scheese) of your choice (i get the soy free stuff from Holland&Barret)
• some thyme ( i use dried - i suppose fresh would work but i think it would taste different)
• OPTIONAL Jalapeno peppers, sliced. If you're getting them ready sliced in a jar then just 2-3 slices'll do, but it's really up to you how much you want. If you use too many, remember, the jalapenos will drown out all other tastes.
• OPTIONAL Homous. OMNOMNOM. use it for dipping or shoves some in with the cheese.

what you do:

1. Cut a hole at the top of your pitta bread and try to carefully hollow the bread with your knife. if you make a hole that isn't along the top or the top edge then don't worry - whop it in the toaster and (assuming you have a dual-or-larger toast toaster, or are using the grill) try again with another pitta. The object is to have a little pocket to put your scheese in.
2. If you were successful in your pocket making, slice a slice of scheese and pop it in the pitta, then add some thyme in there. Use as much as you want.
   If you were unsuccessful then toast your pitta, and when it's done, put a bit of cheese and thyme on the bottom half of it and fold it over for a sandwich type thing.
3. In both cases, once you're done toasting you can add your Jalapenos or your homous - i haven't tried toasting my jalapenos in there yet but i assume it would work. i use my homous still in the pot as a dip.
4. Make as many as you want and scoff 'em or use them as appertisers maybe.

Enjoy :3

OMNOMNANA 'Shake

[Best light i could get was in my bathroom]



Really quick Banana Oat Milkshake - a recipe my cake over at Happiness is Toast told me. This is mega easy and quick to make:

• Blender (i used a jug one rather than a hand one)
• banana (preferably really over-ripe)
• oat milk/vegan milk of your choice (Oat milk ftw)
• a small amount of sugar to taste (i used unrefined Demerera sugar)

Put your banana in your blender in moderate sized chunks - if you're using a really ripe one then it wont matter as much about how big the bits are.
Then pour in however much milk you want - in otherwords how much milkshake do you wanna drink? a glass? half a glass? a jug - you might be greedy/sharing? Now is the time to decide.
Then put however much sugar you'd like in there. I only used like a quarter of a tea-spoon of sugar cause i knew it was gonna be mega sweet anyway.
Now blend it up til you can't see chunks of banana - it shouldn't take more than 20 seconds.
numnums.

I'm thinking next time i'll make it extra healthy by adding flaxseed to the mix or maybe try flavouring it with vanilla extract or some cinammon.

Have fun :)


V.

Ultra-Chocolate Birthday Cake

Cake Recipe: http://www.instructables.com/id/The-BEST-chococlate-cake-ever...that-happens-to-be/

Filling Recipe: http://www.easy-cake-ideas.com/chocolate-ganache.html (scroll down to ingredients for the start of the recipe)


It was my birthday the other day and i wanted to make cake so i did :D. This recipe is a little irritating in that it's in american measurements which i'm not used to. But it works and it saves having to find and dust the scales.
Once i'd made my cakes and they were sat in the oven.. (i decided to make it a sandwich cake rather than have it have no filling and risk it not being moist), I looked up vegan cake fillings without much luck and decided to adapt a non-vegan one by using Alpro Soya cream and unsweetened cocoa powder instead of milk chocolate and double dairy cream.
The Ganache needed putting in the freezer and checking every 10 minutes until it got a bit thicker and would be less likely to run off the cakes, but i didn't leave it in the cold long enough and it did so anyway. luckily i'd made enough for the liquid to be at the right level while the entire cake cooled in the fridge overnight.
I forgot to use baking paper so i had some trouble moving the sandwiches on top of one another, until i decided to forgoe perfection (sob) and cut the one layer in half and move it that way.
Tasting it, I felt the cake needed more sugar than the recipe asked for because it left an oddly sour taste in my mouth. But it was perfectly moist and buoyant.


V xx

'Death by Apple Pie'

Recipe: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=19319.0

Made this last Saturday.

I think in future i will use less sugar as it totally ruined the taste of the apples. I also plan on mashing the apples in puree so that the texture is nicer and perhaps using Jus Rol for the top pastry and i didn't really like the sugary topping. My plan is to try making mini-pies the next time i try this. Then i can have them as snacks rather than just as pudding.

V.

(mildly) Spicy Lentil Casserole

Got the original recipe from here but edited it a little as i didn't have certain ingrediants and wasn't feeding so many people.

Edits to the recipe ('cause my pot wasn't that big):

• Used about half the stock it asked for.
• Used about half the veggies it wanted.
• The lentils i used were from a tin (from Asda) and were green.
• I used a large teaspoonful of Korma paste instead of curry powder.
• Didn't crush the garlic, just chopped it.
• Saucepan wasn't particularly big.

Also, when i make it again i will probably use more potatoes as they seem to take better to being fried in the first stage than the carrots and parsnip do. I'm also considering adapting this into a chunky soup for winter.

EDIT: Made this again yesterday (14-8-10), using potatoes, sweet potato and carrots and about half the stock. Worked a lot better and was far less watery.

The bread is just an ordinary seeded baguette from Asda (ew. i'm gonna try making my own when i can). It has Pure Sunflower Butter (which can be found in most supermarkets/healthy food shops) on it and Cheddareese (from Sainsbury's).

Violette xx

Vegan Sweet Potato Pie

Taken from 3/8/10 post on my creative blog, the Rouse.

"Made some Vegan Sweet Potato Pie today. My first proper Vegan dish instead of using frozen nut cutlets or bean burgers. It's really yummy :D. But i left out the corn flour so it didn't set as well as it might've."

Edits to original recipe:

• Didn't add cornflour (wanted to see what it did - it apparently makes it glue together better)
  
• Didn't use Vanilla extract ('cause i didn't have any)
• The 'Vegan pie dish' i used was in fact some Shortcrust Jus Rol Pastry (from Asda - it'll be in the frozen section of most supermarkets and it's a well known product in the UK so it shouldn't be too hard to find/ask for) which is Vegan.
• Used some Alpro Soya cream to finish it. But i'm trying to find a way of avoiding soya altogether (perhaps making my own oat milk cream?) because Soya is a major cause of deforestation.
  

Violette xxx